Oversold and over here: British retailers cool on “Black Friday”, the American sales bonanza

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Seven years after importing the tradition, retailers wish it would go away

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Pink Friday

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JUST as Christmas seems to come earlier each year, so it is with Black Friday, the post-Thanksgiving frenzy of discounts and fisticuffs in the aisles. This year it falls on November 24th. But that didn’t stop Argos, a big catalogue retailer, from launching its own two-week Black Friday season of “amazing” prices on November 15th. Amazon, an online giant, kicks off on November 17th. Currys, an electrical-goods shop, is already discounting its vacuum cleaners. And anyone who misses Black Friday can always catch up on “Cyber …
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Oversold and over here: British retailers cool on “Black Friday”, the American sales bonanza